Digital Access Blog

I was having drinks with a colleague the other night and she said something that changed the way in which I see service design in the field of digital accessibility. "We make sure that people can get from A to B, and that's important." Yes it is. So, why is it that we only introduce people with disabilities into service design during the late usability stage of research?

Accessibility should not be an afterthought. It should not be thrown into the testing stage of the final project spring "if we have time"; it should be part of the development process and it should be considered early to reduce risk. Solid, accessible foundations result in solid, accessible experiences. How do you build accessibility into your projects? For the answer, let us borrow from the teachings of one of the greatest minds regarding training and discipline in the world, John Kreese of the Cobra Kai.

The Digital Access team at Vision Australia provide technical and user-based assessments of websites. When we test websites, we usually find a high number of issues that relate to screen reader use. A screen reader is a piece of software that reads the text on the screen using a synthetic voice and also indicates the nature of the content, for example if it's a heading, image, list or any other format.

Whether you have a single file or magnitude of legacy documents, our new document remediation partner can make them accessible for you. TaggedPDF is Australia’s first 100% dedicated PDF tagging service.

Designers often use InDesign to create PDF documents that contain tabulated data spanning multiple columns or pages. Annual reports, for example, commonly have long tables of financial figures and other data. In this article you will learn how to create accessible data tables that span multiple pages using InDesign CC and Acrobat Pro DC.